Pakistan has strongly condemned the continuing extrajudicial killings instaged encounters and fake cordon-and-search operations, arbitrarydetentions and crimes against humanity by Indian occupation forces inIndian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

The Foreign Office in a statement said the deteriorating security and humanrights situation in the occupied territory is a matter of grave concern forthe international community.

It said Pakistan also strongly condemns India’s ongoing propaganda tomalign the indigenous and just struggle of the Kashmiri people for theirright to self-determination, by raising the bogey of ‘terrorism’.

The Foreign Office said Pakistan calls on India to halt its State-sponsoredterrorism, refrain from propaganda against Kashmiris, lift its suffocatingmilitary siege and let the people of IIOJK exercise their right toself-determination as promised in various UN Security Council resolutions.